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Hans of Iceland, PDF eBook

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What is your opinion, Neighbor Braall?<br><br>Miners are mad, replied the fisherman.

A fish cannot live out of water; a man should not dive into the bowels of the earth.<br><br>But, objected a young man in the crowd, if to secure his betrothed, it were necessary for Gill Stadt to work in the mines?<br><br>We ought never to expose our lives, interrupted Oily, for the sake of matters of far less importance.

A fine dowry Gill has gained for his Guth!<br><br>Did this young girl drown herself in despair, on hearing of her lover's death? inquired another.<br><br>Who says so? exclaimed a soldier, roughly, who was passing his way through the crowd.

I knew the girl well; and she was certainly engaged to a young miner, who was crushed to death by the fall of a rock, in one of the subterranean galleries of Storwaadsgrute, near RÅ“raas.

She was also the mistress of one of my comrades; and the day before yesterday she was venturing secretly to Munckholm, to celebrate with her lover the death of her betrothed, when her boat struck on a rock, and she was drowned.<br><br>A confused hubbub of voices arose, in the midst of which the old woman exclaimed:<br><br>Impossible! brave sir.<br><br>The young ones remained silent.

Neighbor Niels maliciously recalled the fisherman's remark:<br><br>That is where love leads to.<br><br>The soldier was getting seriously angry at the old women's incredulity.

He had already called them a parcel of old witches from the Cave of Quiragoth, and they were not disposed to endure so gross an insult, when a sharp and commanding voice put an end to the debate, exclaiming:<br><br>Silence! silence, you old dotards! All became silent; as the cock's crowing causes the hens t

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